are there any cites round here? cuz i've thought about food coloring in the eyes as well (not doing it, mind you. but about the ramifications of doing it).

seeing as how food coloring is non-toxic, and hasn't caused any irritation to other mucus membranes (my mouth has been blue as a motherfuck, with no ill consequences), will food coloring harm delicate corneal tissues?

If you put food coloring in your eye, methinks that your body would go, "Agh! There's stuff in the eye! Quick, let's flush it out!" and your eyes would tear and the color would run down your cheeks, rendering you the spitting image of Tammy Faye at the fall of the PTL.

Supposing the color wasn't all flushed out, it would probably color your entire eye (not just the iris, which is what I think you want).

If you go for coloured contacts, please please PLEASE get them through a licensed eye doctor. Friend of mine got a pair from a novelty mail-order... scratched his eyes so badly he had to remove them immediately, and his vision was blurry for a couple days.

Oh yeah... even back in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" days they had those. But it is hard to tell. Computer editing and contact technology both are very good to accomplish such a feat.

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I wanna put food coloring in my eyes now. Green, actually. What a wonderously strange idea. Just think, if someone does this and damage happens, they could sleep well, knowing that soon General Foods International will start putting new warning labels on their product: "Food coloring. Not for use in eye."

But really, it doesn't seem like it would do any harm... and yet, I feel compelled to not try it.